Our 2025 Mid-Year Donor Report: Partnership, Momentum, and a New Foundation

NACPM is excited to share our 2025 Mid-Year Donor Report—a look at what supporters helped make possible in the first six months of this year. The short version: we deepened collaboration across the field and built the infrastructure to sustain it.

What’s new—and why it matters

This spring, NACPM expanded community-rooted partnerships and received awards from the Skyline Foundation, Wagner Foundation, Pritzker Children’s Initiative, Oregon State University Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University. These investments are fueling collaborative work with key allies, including:

• Birth Center Equity

• Uplift Labs

• Elephant Circle

• Institute for Medicaid Innovation

• Birth Place Lab

• Primary Maternity Care

• Voices for Healthy Kids/American Heart Association

Together, these relationships help us advance an equitable, integrated, midwifery-focused perinatal system—one that centers community birth, accountability, and access.

A new philanthropic engine: NFCPM

This year we also established our sister organization, the National Foundation for Certified Professional Midwives (NFCPM)—a dedicated platform to grow charitable investment and sustain long-term impact. The Foundation is designed to:

• Grow philanthropic investment for CPMs and CPM allies

• Sustain scholarship, research, and systems-integration projects

• Accelerate equity-focused workforce development for CPMs

Working in tandem, NACPM (the CPM professional association) and NFCPM (a charitable foundation dedicated to CPMs) give this movement both the advocacy strength and the philanthropic capacity needed to scale.

Inside the report

• Milestones from the first half of 2025

• Partnership spotlights and funded collaborations

• Progress toward an integrated, accountable community birth system

• What’s next for the second half of 2025

👉 Read the full 2025 Mid-Year Donor Report (PDF)

Fuel what’s next

• Support legislative advocacy with a gift to NACPM

• Fund scholarships through the Tanya Khemet Taiwo Scholarship and the Bigger Table Fund

Our supporters’ belief in this work allows us to move both efficiently and thoughtfully. NACPM extends our heartfelt gratitude for standing with NACPM and the communities we serve.

New Advocacy Stance on Collaborative Agreements & Interprofessional Relationships

The NACPM Board is proud to release a new advocacy stance addressing collaborative agreements and interprofessional relationships. This statement centers the impact of forced contracts on client choice, equity, and systemic trust, while affirming that Certified Professional Midwives should be recognized as autonomous primary care providers. It calls for removing mandatory collaborative agreements—which can undermine midwifery autonomy and limit access to care—and instead building integrated, respectful care systems that prioritize client-centered collaboration.

A Bold Step Forward: Updated CPM Philosophy, Values & Ethics Statements Released!

Together, We’re Defining the Heart of Our Profession

We’re thrilled to share a powerful moment in our shared journey as a profession. For the first time since 2010, Certified Professional Midwives have a newly written Philosophy and Principles of Practice, and updated Statement of Values and Statement of Ethics—created by and for the CPM community.

The last version of the Statement of Values and Ethics, developed by the now-dissolved Midwives Alliance of North America, served the profession for over a decade. Today, we step forward with renewed clarity, rooted in shared purpose, and shaped by voices across our profession.

This was a collective effort. The process included multiple stages of review and feedback to ensure the final documents truly reflect the depth, integrity, and diversity of our work:

• Drafting: A NACPM working group of board members, stakeholders, and subject matter experts came together to develop the initial drafts.
  

• Internal Review: These drafts were refined with input from the NACPM Board of Directors and committee members.
  

• Stakeholder Feedback: The drafts were shared with members (voting and non-voting) for input—your insights were invaluable.
  

• Organizational Feedback: We invited NARM and MEAC to provide feedback to support alignment across our profession.
  

• Public Comment: A final round of public input helped ensure transparency, inclusivity, and accountability.
  

• Board Approval: The final suggests were reviewed and the final draft approved by the NACPM Board.

These new guiding documents reflect not only where we are—but where we’re going.